Characterization of a robot arm for use in acoustic experiments

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Wamola, Davis (Davis W.), 1977-
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Barbara Shinn-Cunningham.
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Abstract
In this thesis, I characterized the motion of a robot arm, which is used to position a speaker in an echoic room at a distance of 1m around a subject's head under computer control. I also made some initial measurements of the acoustic transfer function from the speaker on the robot arm to a microphone in the center of the room as a function of speaker location. I wrote and implemented code in MATLAB to control placement on the robot arm and record experimental measurements.
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Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 51).
 
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
 
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2002
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16860
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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